Benedict J.Fernandez, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Monsignor Rice of Pittsburgh march in the Solidarity Day Parade at the United Nations Building, April 15, 1967 (79.1990)

. . . King’s forms of peaceful protest played a pivotal role in ending the legal segregation of African-American citizens in the United States, as well as the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.